Corry Ann McFenny is a ten year old girl who lives with her mom and bossy teenage sister Ariana when she discovers a secret journal that holds the key to and exciting journey. After meeting a magical talking to her. Corry Ann journeys through a door to a place called Once Upon A Time. There she discovers that she is a fairytale historian. She must help chronicle fairytale stories into the mysterious journal or the stories will disappear forever. Antonellis tells her about a boy named Jack of Cornwall who needs her help from the mysterious Dark Knight who wants to destroy Once Upon A Time. She also learns that her long lost father was really kidnapped by the Dark Knight. With the help of a mysterious gray wolf named Rufulio she tries to help the creatures of Once Upon A Time chronicle their stories and stay one step ahead of the Dark Knight. She even finds clue that may help find her father. On the journey Corry Ann discovers that not everything is what it seems and friendships are more valuable than gold.

Corry Ann McFenny is a ten year old girl who lives with her mom and bossy teenage sister Ariana when she discovers a secret journal that holds the key to and exciting journey. After meeting a magical talking to her. Corry Ann journeys through a door to a place called Once Upon A Time. There she discovers that she is a fairytale historian. She must help chronicle fairytale stories into the mysterious journal or the stories will disappear forever. Antonellis tells her about a boy named Jack of Cornwall who needs her help from the mysterious Dark Knight who wants to destroy Once Upon A Time. She also learns that her long lost father was really kidnapped by the Dark Knight. With the help of a mysterious gray wolf named Rufulio she tries to help the creatures of Once Upon A Time chronicle their stories and stay one step ahead of the Dark Knight. She even finds clue that may help find her father. On the journey Corry Ann discovers that not everything is what it seems and friendships are more valuable than gold.

From wicked queens, beautiful princesses, elves, monsters, and goblins, to giants, glass slippers, poisoned apples, magic keys, and mirrors, the characters and images of fairy tales have cast a spell over readers and audiences, both adults and children, for centuries. These fantastic stories have travelled across cultural borders, and been passed on from generation to generation, ever-changing, renewed with each re-telling. Few forms of literature have greater power to enchant us and rekindle our imagination than a fairy tale. But what is a fairy tale? Where do they come from and what do they mean? What do they try and communicate to us about morality, sexuality, and society? The range of fairy tales stretches across great distances and time; their history is entangled with folklore and myth, and their inspiration draws on ideas about nature and the supernatural, imagination and fantasy, psychoanalysis, and feminism. In this Very Short Introduction, Marina Warner digs into a rich hoard of fairy tales in all their brilliant and fantastical variations, in order to define a genre and evaluate a literary form that keeps shifting through time and history. Drawing on a glittering array of examples, from classics such as Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, and The Sleeping Beauty, the Grimm Brothers' Hansel and Gretel, and Hans Andersen's The Little Mermaid, to modern-day realizations including Walt Disney's Snow White, Warner forms a persuasive case for fairy tale as a crucial repository of human understanding and culture. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

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The magnificent title story of this collection of fairy tales for adults describes the strange and uncanny relationship between its extravagantly intelligent heroine--a world renowned scholar of the art of story-telling--and the marvelous being that lives in a mysterious bottle, found in a dusty shop in an Istanbul bazaar. As A.S. Byatt renders this relationship with a powerful combination of erudition and passion, she makes the interaction of the natural and the supernatural seem not only convincing, but inevitable. The companion stories in this collection each display different facets of Byatt's remarkable gift for enchantment. They range from fables of sexual obsession to allegories of political tragedy; they draw us into narratives that are as mesmerizing as dreams and as bracing as philosophical meditations; and they all us to inhabit an imaginative universe astonishing in the precision of its detail, its intellectual consistency, and its splendor. "A dreamy treat.... It is not merely strange, it is wondrous." --Boston Globe "Alternatingly erudite and earthy, direct and playful.... If Scheherazade ever needs a break, Byatt can step in, indefinitely." --Chicago Tribune "Byatt's writing is crystalline and splendidly imaginative.... These [are] perfectly formed tales." --Washington Post Book World

The dragons are back and they're bigger and badder than ever before in this brilliant sequel to Dragonskin Slippers

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"Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.